Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.109.56.219.65.mobile.3.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded Subject: Re: arm-gcc: pointer to constant string Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:53:20 +0200 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87a7o7tbdr.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> References: <_iUmD.204351$Os.171913@fx35.am4> <3ranD.175206$_V.125892@fx32.am4> <7ZsnD.408545$%L2.113927@fx15.am4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="109.56.219.65.mobile.3.dk:109.56.219.65"; logging-data="14843"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8BPRIHajKeJbyEjbYgKWoKh0OmU= Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:28123 David Brown wrote: > There is no point in knowing how to test for a bug that you would > never have written in the first place. Well. We are human, so we may occassionally make mistakes. (I have enough experience to know that I can make errors I never really would make.) There is also the matter of protecting the construct against later (incorrect) modification. Greetings, Jacob -- "make it easy for folks to make changes that remain consistent with the documentation and discourage them from those changes that would result in the comments being invalidated"